Fall Holidays
The holiday that lands on October 31st each year.
What is Halloween
The largest pumpkin pie ever weighed nearly ____ pounds.
A. 3,700
B. 2,500
C. 1,000
What is... A. 3,700
The pie weighed about 3,700 pounds and had a diameter of 20 feet. It took 1,212 pounds of canned pumpkin, 2,796 eggs, 525 pounds of sugar and 440 sheets of dough to make the pie.
How do you fix a pumpkin?
What is... With a pumpkin patch
Name 2 of the 3 most consumed fall drinks.
What is Hot Chocolate, Apple Cider, Pumpkin Spice Latte
Most popular fall fruit
What is Apples
Day after a holiday where people shop some of the best deals of the year.
What is Black Friday
Americans buy enough candy during Halloween week to fill six ____.
A. Titanics
B. Football Fields
C. Grocery Stores
What is... A. Titanic
Sources say "If you took all the candy that's sold during Halloween week and turned it into a giant ball … it'd be as large as six Titanics and weigh 300,000 tons."
Why do trees hate going to school?
What is.... Because they're easily stumped
Four most common colors associated with fall.
What is red, yellow, orange and brown
A popular baked pastry dish made with either fruit or meat and vegetables.
What is pie
Holiday celebrated by Canadians and Americans on different days.
Thanksgiving
How many varieties of apples are there?
A. 2,500
B. 5,200
C. 7,500
What is ... C. 7,500
What kind of vest do you wear in the fall?
What is... Har'VEST'
Another name for fall
What is Autumn
Popular seasonal drink flavor in the fall
Pumpkin spice
The month that contains the first day of fall
What is September
Which one of the words below is associated with the sound of wind in the trees and rustling leaves.
A. Praire
B. Psithurism
C. Bract
What is... B. Psithurism
The sound of leaves and trees rustling in the wind is considered one of the most satisfying noises of the season. And the next time you hear it, you'll know it has a name: psithurism, which comes from the Greek word psithuros, meaning whispering (the s is silent).
Why shouldn’t you tell a secret in a cornfield?
What is... Because the corn has ears
Animals do this during the fall to prepare for winter
What is Hibernate and/or store food
A sticky treat made specially during Halloween and fall harvest (Hint: it is served on a stick)
What is Candy apple
The month that contains the last day of fall
What is December
The smell of the first rain of the season has a name.
A. Petrichor
B. Monsoon
C. First Fall
What is... A. Petrichor
Petrichor is "a distinctive, earthy, usually pleasant odor that is associated with rainfall especially when following a warm, dry period.
What do you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by it's diameter?
What is... Pumpkin Pi
The one type of tree that never loses it's leaves or color (Hint is in the name)
What is An Evergreen tree
A pumpkin is made up of approximately how much water?
A. 45%
B. 60%
C. 80%
What is... C. 80%
Pumpkins are 80-90% water